Kirsty Williams has announced that secondary schools and colleges in Wales will move to online learning from 14 December.
Ofsted will carry out a thematic survey on the implementation of T levels and the T-level transition programme.
Government guidance has stated that students in older year groups and their teachers must wear face masks in Scottish schools in high risk areas.
The government intends to keep schools open despite increasing calls for them to close during the latest lockdown.
97 per cent of schools plan to welcome back all pupils full-time at the start of the autumn term.
The learning gap between rich and poor primary age pupils in England has widened for the first time since 2007.
Head teachers have complained about a lack of clarity over the rules on whether teachers or pupils can wear face masks in schools.
BTec students will start receiving their revised grades today, after they were brought in line with A-levels and GCSEs.
Headteachers are considering challenging unusually high GCSE results after bizarre anomalies were reported as record results were published.
Ofqual ignored warnings of flaws in the exams algorithm that left thousands of students devastated.
Pearson will be re-grading BTecs in line with GCSEs and A-levels, meaning BTec students will no longer be receiving their results today.
Primary school closures in the UK have created substantial inequality in time spent learning between pupils from poorer and better-off families.
Students taking BTec vocational qualifications have been caught up in the exam crisis that has affected A-level and GCSE results.
41 per cent of parents are worried that their child will be behind when schools reopen in September.
Ofqual has revealed that GCSE and A-level results in England will be higher this summer, with exam boards set to be more lenient.
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